Central Planning, Sr Strategy & Ops Manager — Emerging Mid-Market
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sacramento, California, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5–8+ years in sales planning, revenue / sales operations, FP&A, or business analytics at a SaaS or technology company
- Strategy Consulting (e.g., McKinsley, Bain, BCG)
- Proven experience owning forecasting and a revenue point of view — building bottoms-up models and explaining variance to plan
- Hands-on quota and capacity planning — translating targets into seller-level goals and the inputs required to hit them
- Advanced modeling in Excel / Google Sheets; proficiency with a planning platform (Anaplan or similar) and BI tools (Tableau); SQL a plus
- Agentic AI fluency - had experience running State of the Art AI tool stack with agentic go-to-market use cases
- Strong command of the sales funnel and core B2B SaaS metrics — pipeline, conversion, productivity, and ARR
- Exceptional attention to detail and data integrity — your numbers are trusted without re-checking
- Clear communication — able to turn a forecast or capacity model into a story leaders and Finance act on
- Comfort in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field
- MBA-a-plus
Nice to have
- Experience standing up or running a rhythm of business (WBR / QBR) for a sales organization
- Familiarity with Anaplan hierarchy management and forecasting tools such as Gong
- Track record of automating recurring reporting to reduce manual effort
- Familiarity with QuickBooks Advanced or the SMB / Emerging Mid-Market segment
- Prior partnership with Finance on forecasting and quota setting
- Github repositories to showcase AI GTM fluency
Full description
Emerging Mid-Market (EMM) is one of QuickBooks' highest-leverage growth bets — Intuit is building a new business inside a multi-billion-dollar franchise, and the strategy is still being written. This role is the strategic engine behind that scale-up. You own the independent point of view on where the EMM business is going, the capital-allocation logic that decides where the next dollar and the next seller go, and the operating cadence that turns analysis into executive decisions.
Sitting in the Planning & Reporting Center of Excellence and partnering directly with EMM Sales leadership, the VP of SMB Sales, and Finance — with regular exposure to C-suite forums — you take a reactive reporting function and turn it into a forward-looking planning engine. This is the seat consulting builds toward: one owner for the fact base, the model, and the recommendation, with accountability for whether it works.
Responsibilities
Forecast & World-View
- Build and own an independent EMM forecast and revenue point of view — a world-view the team owns, not a roll-up of others’ number
- Drive forecast hygiene and deal-signal discipline (e.g., Gong-based forecasting), with weekly accuracy and variance analysis against plan
- Maintain the planning source of truth — weekly channel splits and operational plans — as the single reference for EMM targets
Rhythm of Business & Reporting
- Run the EMM rhythm of business — own the WBR/QBR cadence, the materials, and the follow-through on decisions
- Produce business performance reporting that sales leadership and Finance trust and act on
- Automate recurring reporting to remove manual effort and free the team for higher-value work
Quota & Capacity Planning
- Own EMM quota and capacity planning — translate segment targets into seller-level quotas and the inputs required to hit them
- Build and maintain a CAC-rightsized capacity model that connects investment to required capacity and expected output
- Manage Anaplan hierarchy and planning data integrity; partner with Finance on forecasting and quota setting
Qualifications
This role is for a planner who owns the numbers end to end — rigorous enough that leaders forecast and staff with confidence, and clear enough to turn a model into a decision.
Required
- 5–8+ years in sales planning, revenue / sales operations, FP&A, or business analytics at a SaaS or technology company
- Strategy Consulting (e.g., McKinsley, Bain, BCG)
- Proven experience owning forecasting and a revenue point of view — building bottoms-up models and explaining variance to plan